Another legendary RCA stereo recording from Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, with cellist Antonio Janigro in the solo role of Don Quixote.
Box set with hard cardboard inner-sleeve that houses the LP-sleeve and a full-size, 24 page booklet. The booklet contains quotations from Walter Starkie's translation of Don Quixote and several famous paintings and illustrations. "New Orthophonic High Fidelity" Variations (movements) in 'Don Quixote': Introduction; Theme; Variation I (The Adventure of the Windmills); Variation II (The Battle with the Sheep); Variation III (Dialogue of Knight and Squire); Variation IV (The Adventure with the Penitents); Variation V (The Knight's Vigil); Variation VI (Dulcinea Enchanted); Variation VII (The Ride through the Air); Variation VIII (The Adventure of the Enchanted Boat); Variation IX (The Contest with the Two Magicians); Variation X (The Defeat of Don Quixote by The Knight of the White Moon); Finale (The Death of Don Quixote) Inside book: Quotations from Walter Starkie's translation of Don Quixote © Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1954. Mentor Book, New American Library of World Literature Inc. New York, 1957. Notes by Walter Starkie © 1960. Picasso: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza © SPADEM Paris. Illustration by Salvador Dali for Don Quixote. © 1946 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This book was designed for the Soria series of the RCA Victor Record division Radio Corporation of America and printed in Switzerland at the Skira Color Studios, Lausanne.
